Great Desolation: I Am the Artifact Ancestor
Chapter 1

Crimson Flame Tribe

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Primordial World.

Southwest direction of the Primordial Continent, Crimson Flame Tribe.

Within a giant mountain formed by a dormant volcano, countless caves were densely packed.

Luo Qing was in a small, three-zhang cave at the foot of the mountain, his aura fluctuating unstably.

At one moment, a powerful suction force surged from Luo Qing, madly absorbing the essence and energy of heaven and earth.

Vast essence and energy converged above the Cave Mansion, forming a vortex hundreds of meters in size.

When everything returned to calm, Luo Qing, inside the cave, opened his eyes and immediately burst into laughter.

"I, Luo Qing, after a hundred years of cultivation, have finally become an Immortal! Hahaha!"

Just then, a burly man with red hair and a red face flew over from not far away, lecturing and scolding Luo Qing.

"Laugh? You've cultivated for 100 years and only just reached adulthood, and you still have the nerve to laugh? The juniors born 30 years after you reached adulthood 10 years before you!"

"It's all your fault for insisting on cultivating that damned Immortal Path cultivation technique. You didn't cultivate the proper Gods and Demons cultivation technique and instead went for some unknown method."

Facing the red-faced strong man's disappointed scolding, Luo Qing was already used to it and didn't get angry.

He merely wore a fawning smile on his face, looking extremely obsequious.

"Captain, you promised that as long as I cultivated to adulthood, you'd lend me your Blazing Flame Blade to study for a year. Do you still stand by your word?"

"Yes, yes! I must have had terrible luck to get stuck with you, kid!"

The red-faced, burly Huoshi rolled his eyes at Luo Qing.

He casually conjured a two-meter-long, crimson blade entwined with flames out of thin air and tossed it to Luo Qing, who stood at the cave entrance.

Luo Qing immediately thanked him joyfully, "Thank you, Captain!"

"Kid Luo, you've just reached adulthood and still need to consolidate your realm properly. Don't waste your energy on studying treasured artifacts."

Before leaving, the burly Huoshi, still worried, earnestly advised Luo Qing.

"Don't worry, Captain Huoshi, I know what I'm doing."

"If you knew what you were doing, you wouldn't have taken a hundred years to reach adulthood!"

As he walked away, Captain Huoshi was still muttering to himself.

A look of regret flashed in his eyes. A hundred years ago, Luo Qing was one of the most outstanding newborns in the Crimson Flame Tribe.

It was a pity that everything was ruined by an unknown Immortal Path cultivation technique, which had always been a pain in Huoshi's heart.

After seeing Captain Huoshi off, Luo Qing finally breathed a sigh of relief and resealed the cave entrance.

Luo Qing was originally just an ordinary young man from Earth, drifting through life until he was thirty.

The day before his birthday, he added another achievement to a cement truck.

He was reborn in this Primordial World.

The Crimson Flame Tribe was one of the Five Elements Great Tribes, established by a group of Innate Fire Spirit Deities.

However, as time passed, by the time Luo Qing was born, the Five Elements Great Tribes, including the Crimson Flame Tribe, were all comprised of Acquired Beings.

Luo Qing was born with the cultivation of Refining Essence into Qi.

Furthermore, because he retained his memories from his previous life, he had earned the reputation of a "genius" in the Crimson Flame Tribe since childhood.

At the age of twenty, he had already reached Refining Void and Merging with the Dao, just one step away from the Divine Realm.

It was in this year that Luo Qing, at the Five Elements Great Tribe's trade fair, suddenly discovered an Immortal Path method that differed from the Dao of Gods and Demons.

Despite Captain Huoshi's dissuasion, Luo Qing ultimately switched to cultivating the Immortal Path.

Combined with other reasons, this led to the situation where it took him a hundred years to cultivate to Earth Immortal, Earth God.

Well, in the Five Elements Great Tribe, only upon reaching Earth Immortal or Earth God was one considered an adult tribal member.

Regardless of whether you were a ten-year-old child or a nearly thousand-year-old elder, if you did not possess Divine Realm cultivation, you were considered a minor and lacked the qualification to leave the tribal territory and travel independently.

From today onwards, Luo Qing was considered to have just reached adulthood.

He sat back down on the meditation cushion, his eyes emitting a blue light, and carefully scanned his entire body.

Information immediately appeared in Luo Qing's consciousness.

"Analyzing..."

"Analysis one complete!"

"Earth Immortal cultivation, body cultivates both the Dao of Gods and Demons and the Immortal Path. Essence, Qi, and Spirit are all at their peak."

"Analysis two beginning..."

Stop!

The blue light in Luo Qing's eyes faded.

This pair of eyes was one of his transmigration benefits.

It can analyze the essence of all things.

Luo Qing temporarily named it the [Eye of the Great Dao].

However, the more complex something is, the deeper into its essence one probes, and the longer it takes to analyze.

For example, analyzing his physical cultivation and state can be done with a single glance.

But delving into the second layer of analysis would take tens of times longer.

The key is that analyzing the second layer isn't the end; there's still analysis three, analysis four...

The time required increases exponentially. Crucially, one cannot cultivate while using the Eye of the Great Dao.

This makes it quite time-consuming.

Previously, he had used the Eye of the Great Dao to study the dual cultivation of Gods and Demons cultivation technique and the Immortal Path.

This is why it took 80 years.

Half of that time was wasted on using the Eye of the Great Dao to study his own body.

After all, the Gods and Demons Path and the Immortal Path, while not entirely conflicting, are difficult to fully harmonize when cultivated simultaneously.

Luo Qing is not one of the so-called Innate Sacred Beings or top-tier Innate Gods of the Primordial Era.

He is merely an ordinary Postnatal Divine Descendant among the myriad beings of the Primordial Era, and who knows how many generations removed from any Innate God ancestors.

Without the innate advantages bestowed by heaven, he could only seize every opportunity to strengthen himself.

When the Gods and Demons Path was prevalent, and the Immortal Path had just appeared as a mere sprout, Luo Qing had to seize this chance to get ahead.

Based on the intelligence gathered from Captain Huoshi and consolidated from the entire Five Elements Great Tribe, Luo Qing concluded that the main enemies of the Five Elements Great Tribe were the Fierce Beasts.

"Fierce Beasts" for short.

The two sides had been fighting for tens of thousands of years across an area of over a hundred thousand miles.

Luo Qing's parents, who had the cultivation of Heavenly Gods in this life, died in a conflict between the Crimson Flame Tribe and Fierce Beasts.

From this, Luo Qing judged that the Primordial Era was currently in the early to mid-stage of the Fierce Beast Calamity, or the calamity had not yet officially begun.

After all, from the creation of the world until now, after sentient beings were born, the Divine Race, represented by the Innate Gods, had been in constant conflict with the Fierce Beasts.

The two sides were like fire and water, making it difficult to pinpoint when the Fierce Beast Calamity began.

Seeing that the five tribes of Crimson Flame could still suppress the nearby Fierce Beast hordes, Luo Qing at least felt that it wasn't yet the mid to late stage of the Fierce Beast Calamity.

Otherwise, the battles would certainly be much more intense than they are now, and the tribes wouldn't have the current peaceful scene.

However, Luo Qing also had to plan for the future, at the very least possessing the power to protect himself during the most intense period of the Fierce Beast Calamity.

His own cultivation was one aspect; weapons and magic treasures should not be underestimated either.

Innate Spiritual Treasures were out of the question for now; they were not something an Earth Immortal like Luo Qing could covet.

But slightly inferior Innate Treasures were something Luo Qing could observe.

With the analytical ability of the Eye of the Great Dao, it would be a waste of resources if Luo Qing didn't choose a secondary profession.

Alchemy? Talisman Arts? Formation Arrays?

Sorry, these were too advanced for the current Primordial Era, which was still a barren land.

If you don't understand these things when you are born, then don't force it.

Artifact Forging was the only option that somewhat suited Luo Qing's preferences.

The Eye of the Great Dao shone with a blue light, looking towards the Blazing Flame Blade.

[Blazing Flame Blade]

Quality: Mid-grade Innate Treasure

Description: A flawed Spiritual Treasure born from the failed genesis of the Origin of the Great Dao of Fire, possessing weak flame laws, it can aid in comprehending flame laws.

This was the most superficial analysis Luo Qing had already performed.

Now, he wasn't seeking this simple description.

"Analyzing... Deep Analysis Level Two..."

"Analyzing... Deep Analysis Level Two..."

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